THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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VOL. XLVI.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1897.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
229
Leading Articles :----
Reorganisation of the Hongkong Police Force ...230
Irregular Finance
The Pension List...
Mr. Detring's Memorial on Mining
.230 .231 .231
Lekia and the Security for the Jameson-Hooley
Loan...
.232
British Trade with Russia and Siboria..... The Manchurian Railways and Foreign Trade The Cotton Trade in Lancashire and China... The Bank of England and the Silver Question
..232
...233 ..233
The Jameson-Hooley Loan
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
...234
234 234+ 237
Reorganisation of the Hongkong Police Force
.237
The Typhoon
.237
Wife Murder in Hongkong
238
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
.238
· Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
.239
.239
China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
The Pumjun Mining Co., Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
.240 240 240
New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
.241
The Raub Mines....
241
S. C. Farnham & Co., Limited
.241
241
Douglas Steamship Co., Limited
The Hongkong Cricket Club.
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
.243 .245 248
At Kowloon, on the 18th inst, the wife of Lieut. Colonel FAITHFULL, of a daughter.
[2158
At "Rheda," Bonham Road, on the 21st inst., the wife of W, JACKSON, of a son.
[2180
MARRIAGE.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 8th September, 1897, by the Rev. H C. Hodges, M.A., J. TAYLOR GREEN, Imperial Maritime Customs, to HANNAH MOUSLEY, of the Wesleyan Mission, Hankow.
DEATHS.
At the Government Civil Hospital, at 10.30 p.m., 17th September, JOHN F. KENYON, late 3rd Officer of the steamer Hailoong, aged 35 years
[2159 On the 7th September, at Fer Cottage, Orchard Road, Singapore, CHARLES PAUL DERRICK, aged 32 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 20th August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Mirzapore, on the 18th September (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sir Claude Macdonald is expected to leave Peking shortly on a risit to Chefoo and Shang- hai.
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News dated Singapore, 17th September; reads: H.M.S. Iphigenia has left for Labuan. It is reported that an expedition will be sent against
Mat Salleh.
An official despatch received from Tientsin states that H.E. Hu, Governor of Peking and Director-General of Railways, North of the Yellow river, has appointed Chang Lien-fung, ex-Acting Tuotai of North Tungchon, to be co-manager of the Tientsin-Peking and the Tientsin-Shanhaikuan Railways.-N. C. Daily
News.
Holland has now a Consulate of her own in Shanghai, Mr. von Warlee, formerly Dutch Consul at Yokohama, having arrived there to take charge.
The Norwegian barque Alette, from Vancon- ver to Yokohama with lumber, was wrecked ou the 8th September at Nishisaki Mura, during a hurricane, and out of a crew of seventeen ten were drowned and six injured.
Au Imperiul edict of the 10th instant appoints | Wêng Tung-ho, Imperial Tutor of the Emperor and President of the Board of Revenue. to be an Assistant Grand Secretary. This official is one of the strongest backers of H.E. Sheng, Director-General of Railways.-N. C. Daily
News.
The sailing ship Phasis was wrecked and abandoned on Royal Charlotte Reef, 130 miles N.W. of Labuan, on the 3rd inst.
Her crew of 27 men was picked up by the steamer Libelle on the 6th, and taken to Labuan. The Phasis is a British ship, under command of Captain Fleming, which left Newcastle (N.S.W.) for Sourabaya on the 19th June-Straits Times.
No. 13.
The agreement for the Jameson-Hooley Loan of £16,000,000 to China was signed on the 18th September. The Syndicate has secured the construction and financing of the Shanghai Honan, and Nanking Railway with extension into likewise the Soochow-Hangchow Railway, together with coal mining privileges in Honan in conjunction with Chinese.
At the half-yearly of the Tanjong Pagar 8th September, the Chairman, Mr. John Ander. Dock Co., Limited, held at Singapore on the son, in the course of his speech said :-During times, considerable difficulty over the question the last six months, the Company had had, at of Chinese labour, measure, due to the prohibition of immigration This was, no doubt, in some
from Swatow and Amoy, but it was also due in some degree to the enhanced cost of importing coolie labour from China, which again was reckoned to be caused, in some measure, by the depreciation of silver. This difficulty over the Chinese labour question was being met in some degree by a slight increase of rates to the con- tractors for labour, and he mentioned this parti cularly with a view of pointing out that that, of bably, some extra charge to the constituents of course, would have to be balanced by, pro- the Company.
Japanese vernacular papers report that the Red Cross Society has decided to order two hospital ships, of 2,500 tons:gross each, in Eug- land, in the course of the year. The vessels are
The Straits Times of the 6th September expected to be registered in the name of the saysThe result of the meeting of the En- except in times of emergency. The estimated N.Y.K. and also to be used by the Company.gineers' Committee this afternoon, and of some cost is put at half a million yen each and the N.Y.K. is said to have agreed to advance the necessary amount, which is to be repaid by the Society in instalments covering twenty years.
The obsequies of the late Grand Secretary Li Hung-tsao took place on the 28th ultimo, at Peking. Both the Emperor and the Empress Imperial House, while every Court Minister and Dowager were represented by Princes of the
members of the Six Boards and Three Courts,
high and low, called at H.E.'s late residence to pay their last respects to the deceased, who is looked upon universally as the type of a true patriot. The obsequies were the grandest and most imposing that have been seen in Peking for many years, not even excepting those of the late Grand Secretary Chang Chih-wau, consiu of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, who was not so popular as the late Li Hung-tsuo although senior in rank.-N. 'C', Daily News.
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informal negotiations just preceeding it, is that the strike is at an end. The Straits Steamship Company have agreed to pay the enhanced rates to all their engineers and to re-instate-this being made a sine qua non by the Association-- the chief and second engineers of the steamer Malacca whom they had announced they would not take back. The Chinese owners practically gave way on Saturday, but their formal con- Straits Steamship Company, with whom they cession of the points raised follows that of the
have been more or less associated in this short- lived struggle. their part have agreed to send back at their own The Engineers' Association on
Calcutta. The strike commenced on the 1st of expense the men the employers brought from September, and has thus lasted less than a week.
Vague rumours have reached Tokyo from time to time about the ownership of land by foreigners in Formusa. From the first that question was understood to be likely to give trouble, the arrangements made by the Chinese Says the Sunday Sun :-The Chinese are Authorities having been of a somewhat apparently beginning to wake up to the benefits slipshod nature. After some delay, it was of life assurance, and the agent of an American finally decided that, as land cannot legally be company, who has been lucky enough to "strike owned by aliens in Japan, the only course was ile" in this matter, has been doing quite a phenomenal business with them, if the report of had acquired land under the Chinese regimen. to grant perpetual leases to the foreigners who a Tientsin consul is to be credited. Endow. That has been done, the Nichi Nichi Shimbun ment policies seem to be chiefly fancied, the says, in over seventy cases. But it appears that average Chinaman being more inclined to enjoy the Spanish priests obtained land for charch the fruits of this savings himself than to pro- sites under a special arrangement, according to vide for his family. The insurance agent in which the Chinese conferred on them an excep., question has already issued 77,00) policies, it is tional title, and they are said to be now pressing said, and the business shows no signs of falling for official recognition of that title. We have off. The sudden popularity of the system is due to the fact that the policies cannot be leied
no information of our own on the subject, but we are disposed to donbt whether the Spanish upon by the rapacious tax-collector; but the fathers have adopted any such course.
A per Government will probably find means of secur-petual lease difers only in name from a title in its usual plunder before very long. Meautime fee simple, and it would be distinctly bud policy there is 4 fine for enterprising officers; on the part of the priests to urge a claim which but it would be interesting to know what the Japanese Authorities have no power to tables of mortality the prem.ums are arranged recognise, and which possesses no practical
value.-Japan Mail.
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